Our Team

Dr. Andrew J. Bauman

Founder & Director of the Christian Counseling Center: For Sexual Health & Trauma (CCC), Dr. Andrew J. Bauman is a licensed mental health counselor with a Doctorate from Northeastern University. His dissertation was on studying the impact of sexism and abuse on women in the Protestant Church. Andrew is the author of seven books, his newest book is called SAFE CHURCH: What Women Can Teach Us about Sexism, Abuse and Safety within Christian Community (2024)

Dr. Christy V. Bauman

Founder & Director of the CCC, Dr. Christy Vidrine Bauman is an author, teacher, and psychotherapist. A mother of 4, a fierce dreamer, and passionate about advocating for women.

Christy received her Bachelors’s degree from Texas A&M in 2002 and then her Masters in Counseling at Reformed Theological Seminary in 2007 and her doctorate at Seattle Pacific University and is researching Shame and Sexuality in Women in 2020. She published the book Unearth in 2008, A Brave Lament in 2018, and Theology of the Womb in 2020. She is certified in Medical Family Therapy and Trauma and Abuse.

Emily Pellham

Emily is an administrative assistant with CCC. She has a B.S. in Special Education, a minor in Christian Counseling, and over 10 years of experience in Behavioral Therapy. She has a passion for walking alongside those pursuing growth, healing, and freedom. She is excited to connect you with all that CCC has to offer!

Ryan Ginn

Ryan is a professional counselor and coach who provides a compassionate and encouraging space for individuals and couples to meet their life in a more empowered and functional way. He works with clients in dynamic style based on his extensive training in mindfulness and psychobiologically based therapies. He has led men’s groups and been a men’s coach for over 15 years, having formulated his own process for coaching men into functional and thriving relationship. He is a trained IFS, Hakomi, and PACT (psychobiological approach to couples therapy) practitioner.

Luke Banner

Luke helps people change and experience freedom by helping them heal from core wounds, grow into truer versions of themselves, and thrive in healthy relationships. He offers trauma-informed storywork coaching to men, women, and couples, and has both a Masters in Counseling and a Masters of Divinity.

He enjoys working with clients that are hungry for change, especially those struggling with sexual integrity, abusive behaviors, trauma, identity, relational brokenness, spiritual wandering, and more. He considers his ability to offer curiosity and compassion to others a direct result of his own work of deeply engaging his own stories of trauma, brokenness, pain, and heartache.

Luke was also in pastoral ministry for 10 years and understands the weight and strain every pastor and leader carries, and loves offering them a safe place to process life. In his free time, Luke is frequently mountain biking, doing triathlons, backpacking, playing soccer or pickleball, or adventuring with his wife of 15 years and 3 amazing kids.

Email lukebanner14@gmail.com for more info!

Michellene Burke

Michellene Burke is a betrayal trauma coach and narcissistic abuse recovery support clinician, mediator, and trauma educator whose primary niche is being Narcissistic Abuse Trauma Recovery (NATC)‑trained and Minwalla‑trained and leading full therapeutic disclosures through an Integrity Abuse Disorder (IAD), self‑awareness, and somatic lens. She is deeply partner‑sensitive and trauma‑informed and has led couples communities, betrayed‑partners groups, and men’s and betrayers groups that help betrayers redefine purpose and begin to rewire impulsive and compulsive patterns and defaults.

Her approach to disclosure is intentionally untraditional, leading full therapeutic disclosures in a unique and more healing way for both the betrayer and the betrayed partner and, when appropriate, integrating polygraphs to support the process. She combines somatic work, NATC‑ and Minwalla‑informed frameworks, and clear structure that calls betraying partners into the “4 R’s of an apology founded in integrity”: Recognition, Responsibility, Remorse, and Redress, rather than vague apologies or spiritual bypassing.

In addition to her disclosure work, one of Michellene’s other specialties is guiding individuals through DV‑recovery and trauma‑informed therapeutic separation and healing in the context of high‑conflict divorce, separation, and mediation. While that is not the primary focus of her practice, it has deepened her care for healing the family as a whole, including situations where “D‑Day” within the family was not chosen by the betrayed partner or by the children. She is experienced in supporting family disclosures and helping each member understand what has happened, grieve what has been lost, and move toward the safest and most honest path forward, whether that is repair or thoughtful separation.

Michellene offers sessions, disclosure intensives, groups, and workshop retreats focused on disclosure and recovery; you can visit her website at www.therelationalresource.com and email her directly at info@therelationalresource.com.

Nicole Irene

Nicole is a trauma informed life coach and facilitator of domestic violence support groups. She has a coaching certificate in applied neurology, and nearly 10 years experience working with people who have been affected by domestic violence. Much of her work center around helping people regulate their nervous systems in order to find greater internal safety. As people feel more at home in their bodies, they can reconnect to their innate wisdom and intuition, and increase their capacity for the challenges they face.

Some of the areas she specializes in include:

Abuse, (including physical, emotional, spiritual, financial, sexual, narcissistic, post separation, and coercive control)

Anxiety

Hypervigilance

Depression

Betrayal Trauma

Loss of Self

Boundaries

Single Parenting

Co-parenting with a difficult ex

Self Care and Soul Care

Her work is deeply informed by polyvagal theory and applied neurology. She loves helping clients ground, calm and build internal safety in order to facilitate more growth and healing.  

Emily Elizabeth Anderson

Emily Elizabeth Anderson is the founder of Thriving Forward and is a personal survivor of a fundamentalist cult and domestic abuse — experiences that give her a unique depth of understanding when walking alongside women who feel trapped, silenced, or unseen in their relationships. 

Her story, featured on Amazon Prime’s Shiny Happy People, is what fuels her passion as an Abuse Recovery Coach, where she specializes in supporting women navigating betrayal trauma, coercive control, domestic violence, chronic illness challenges, divorce and co-parenting, boundary work, and spiritual abuse.

She is certified under CCC in somatic trauma processing and has completed additional certifications and specialized trainings in domestic abuse frameworks and betrayal trauma recovery. Emily helps women rebuild safety, self-trust, and freedom by integrating nervous system awareness with compassionate, practical tools for recovery.

Emily believes that even after the deepest wounds of abuse and manipulation, healing is possible. Her work centers on offering presence, clarity, and support as women reclaim their bodies, their voices, and their stories.

Emily offers both private coaching and small group coaching for women. 

Lauren Little

Lauren is a spiritual director affiliate of CCC with training in the contemplative tradition through Leadership Transformation’s Selah Certificate Program in Spiritual Direction. Spiritual Direction is a form of spiritual companionship in which the director serves as an attentive witness to the spiritual life of another offering hospitable space to quiet down, tune in, and actively engage through prayer with what God is inviting.

Lauren is also a designer, artist, and writer with interest and experience in centering prayer, grief work and rituals, racial trauma an healing, decolonizing and re-imagining faith, and integrating art and spirituality. She accompanies those experiencing grief, the spiritually curious, unsettled, and devoted looking for a safe space to listen for the deepest thing that is already there.

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Brian Petermeyer

Brian is a mental health counselor and coach with CCC. He received his Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in 2021.

This life is too hard to journey alone. I believe that healing, growth and change needs accompaniment, someone to go with. Together we will look at what is causing the pain, strain, depression, frustration, fragmentation in life and work to find wholeness. 

It takes an immense amount of courage to seek guidance and I desire to provide a safe place where we can begin the courageous act of attending to the wounds of our life. The journey towards healthy sexuality and wholeness are available and you don’t have to go alone.

I know the road of brokenness and pain—looking good on the outside while suffering in silence and isolation. Shame had a stranglehold on me. But through the work of extending kindness to myself and truly engaging my own stories with curiosity, the healing process began. This kind of healing is possible. It can happen for you, too.

Trent Dollyhigh

“My past immaturity, lack of courage, fear and unhealthy sexuality cost me almost everything. My journey from brokenness to redemption gives me a real understanding of how to guide you. Failure isn’t the end but a new beginning.” -Trent

Trent Dollyhigh, MDiv, CPM, CPLC coaches men in our deceptive sexuality and abuse recovery program. Because of his own failures he has a unique perspective into the heart of men and can walk beside them as they walk through issues of integrity disorders, deceptive sexuality and betrayal. Email him today to schedule your session.

Jessica Bahr

Jessica is a trauma-informed Therapeutic Coach with a M.A. in Mental Health Counseling. She works with individuals and couples around issues of relational trauma, intimacy disorders, sexuality, betrayal trauma, attachment, nervous system regulation, spiritual abuse and spiritual bypassing, as well as developing a stronger sense of Self and self-worth.

Jessica works with people from all faiths with an open heart and mind, and with the goals of helping her clients achieve self awareness, healthy boundaries, relational health, and healing and growth beyond what they may have thought possible. Jessica is a certified Relational Life Therapy (RLT) Coach – Terry Real’s work, and has been trained in Secret Sex Lives and Betrayal Trauma, Working with Men (Terry Real), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Compassionate Inquiry (Gabor Mate). She is currently enrolled in a 60-hour certification program to learn Somatic and EMDR treatments for trauma and nervous system healing.

Jessica got her undergraduate degree in Media Studies and has a passion for dissecting the media and the impact it has on shaping our ideas, attitudes and behaviors towards ourselves and others. This has led to her pursuit of an in-depth understanding of the harms of pornography (on the body, brain and interpersonally) and to her serving on the Board of Directors of the cutting-edge non-profit organization, Culture Reframed for many years. Jessica offers 50-minute or 80-minute video sessions. You can visit her website at www.relationshifting.com and email her at jessicaskybahr@gmail.com to schedule a meeting.

Marcus Schmaling

Marcus Schmaling, MDiv (2009), MA Counselling (2025), knows how hard it is to face yourself. He spent over a decade as a pastor, helping others grow and heal, while running from his own pain. It took a painful divorce, the loss of his ministry, and years of deep inner work—including Andrew Bauman men’s intensives and therapy—to finally confront his addictions, codependency, and emotional immaturity. Through that journey, Marcus discovered what it means to live with courage and integrity. Now a licensed clinical counsellor and men’s coach, he helps other men do the same: face their fears, own their story, and step into a life of deeper purpose and connection.

Marcus offers a space where you’ll find compassion without coddling, honesty without shame, and challenge without judgment. He knows the road because he’s walked it…and continues to walk it. The invitation is simple: Brave yourself. Become you.

Let’s journey together!

“The greatest question in all the world is simply this: ‘What are you doing with your pain?’” — Richard Rohr.

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Jeffrey Batstone

Jeffrey is a relational psychotherapist helping people process trauma and heal abusive patterns, deepen awareness of their unique identities, and restore them to the relationships that matter most. He works with men, women, and couples and believes the strongest remedy for growth and healing is a wildly kind and gentle approach.

He specializes in spiritual and sexual issues and approaches therapy with the understanding that Western culture’s abusive and addictive relationships with sex and spirituality are normalized and that the healing path is living a counter-cultural life.

He helps people who have experienced sexual and/or spiritual abuse and those who have unwanted adult patterns of behavior.

Jeffrey received his master’s education at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in 2010 and his doctorate in counseling psychology at Argosy University Seattle in 2019. For the past two decades, he’s worked in private practice, men’s healing organizations and churches to bring more wholeness to individuals, communities, and the world.

He’s a licensed mental health counselor in Washington State and a life coach practicing in person and online. His office is a short walk from the Bremerton ferry dock or just a few clicks away.

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Kevin Reeves

Kevin is certified as a Professional Co-Active Coach and is also certified through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). His undergrad degree is in Christian Education from Biola University and before becoming a coach, he was a pastor. However, after about 5-years on the pastoral circuit, Kevin realized that being a pastor wasn’t where he wanted to be, and through that, he found coaching.

Coaching and therapy can beautifully compliment each other while being different. Where therapy tends to focus on the past and present, valuable for understanding where we’ve come from and our origin story, coaching focuses more on the present and future and supports us to choose what the next chapter might look like. So while we all have some degree of trauma, we are not defined by our trauma. It is not your identity.

Kevin works with individuals from all faith backgrounds. Bring your story and your trauma and learn to navigate your inner critic, to honor your values, to shift your perspectives, and take part in the journey of becoming the confident partner/leader/parent/human that you choose to be.

Kevin offers 50-minute phone and/or Zoom sessions and is currently taking new clients.